John Blow, An Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell (1696) for two countertenors, two recorders and basso continuo. Text by John Dryden. Performed by the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, conducted by Peter Seymour; Robin Blaze (countertenor) and Jason Darnell (tenor) – audio with original edition of score:

For an example of music by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, here is Gloria in altissimis Deo from Op. 3 (1650), performed by the Cappella Artemisia, conducted by Candace Smith:

Further Reading

Baade, Colleen. “‘Hired’ Nun Musicians in Early Modern Castille.” In Musical Voices of Early Modern Women: Many-HeadedMelodies, ed. Thomasin La May. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2005. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54974608

Butt, John. Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque. Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28026843

Freitas, Roger, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/268793382